I'm not an expert in either language but have you also given F# a though? The co...

vegabook · on Feb 24, 2016

I really need Linux to be the first class citizen (yes I see MS has bought Xamarin but still). Also last I looked, F# wasn't looking any better than Ocaml on multinode distributed computing (please do correct me if I'm wrong).

profquail · on Feb 25, 2016

As another poster mentioned, you can use Akka.Net with F# (that project was started and is still run by F# developers).

Another option with deeper language integration is mbrace: http://mbrace.io/

Vesa Karvonen ported CML to F# as Hopac, which has very good performance: https://github.com/Hopac/Hopac

Finally, there're Orleans and Naiad from MSFT:

https://github.com/dotnet/orleans

https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch/Naiad

giancarlostoro · on Feb 24, 2016

Xamarin is a C# shop, mono as a platform for F# is independent of this, and if I'm not mistaken the F# compiler is open source[0] under the Apache 2.0 License. There are a few shops who have praised F# for it's multicore capabilities[1], but again I am not a full expert so it may require independent research. MonoDevelop supports F# as well. There are Linux build instructions in the GitHub repository.

[0]: https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp [1]: http://fsharp.org/testimonials/#grange-insurance-1

ZenoArrow · on Feb 24, 2016

If you're looking for to use a distributed architecture with F# it's worth checking out Akka.NET:

http://getakka.net/